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Investing in cross-country development corridors through improved infrastructure, border crossing and trade facilitation and transport services reforms, spurs regional integration and amplifies effects of enhanced connectivity on income, welfare, and job creation. The effects are more prominently critical for land-locked countries, such as those in Central Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. For these countries, implementing the objectives of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area agreement (2019) is key. The new generation of development corridors seeks to adopt a holistic perspective that brings together value chain development, cross-border infrastructure investments with harmonized sector policy, logistics, and trade facilitation reforms, along with a renewed emphasis on climate/environmental considerations, stability, and community resilience actions.”
To present and discuss this very important sector topic, Charles Kunaka, Lead Transport Specialist of the World Bank Transport Practice, has kindly agreed to join us at our next virtual event on February 23, 2023, at 12:00 noon (Washington DC time). Charles joined the World Bank in 2006 as a Senior Transport Specialist and has since worked on numerous logistics, economic corridors, and transport facilitation initiatives, both analytical and operational. He has been the task team leader of several investment operations among them the India Capacity Augmentation of National Waterway 1 Project, and the Great Lakes Trade Facilitation project. Charles has also been involved in logistics-related analytical activities in several countries including Afghanistan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Bosnia. He has been based in Singapore, Addis Abba, and, since July 2022, Washington DC. Charles holds an MSc from Cranfield University and a PhD from University College London, both on transport economics and policy.
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